Definitely not punishment for someone leaking internal data There's no fairy tale ending for Slack at entertainment behemoth Disney following reports that the Salesforce-owned messaging service will be ditched in favor of Microsoft Teams.

The entertainment company reportedly issued a memo to staff that a migration away from Slack’s collaboration application will conclude next year. The move follows a high-profile data breach that led to the publication of 44 million Slack messages and tens of thousands of documents by a hacking group.

A hacktivist group called NullBulge leaked data from almost 10,000 of Disney’s Slack channels in July.

Disney told employees on Thursday that it will no longer use Slack for internal communication after a hack earlier this year allowed cybercriminals to expose financial materials, computer codes, and o

In an internal memo shared this week, CFO Hugh Johnston says most Disney teams will move away from Slack by the end of this year.

Walt Disney plans to transition away from its use of Slack as a companywide workplace collaboration system, after a hacking entity leaked online more than a terabyte of company data, according to a report in the Status media newsletter.

A hacking group said it gained access to Disney's Slack channels over the summer, which led to leaks. Now, Disney is transitioning away from Slack.

The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year.